UCLA Newsroom: Professor to lead national organization promoting scholarship about indigenous peoples

By Jessica Wolf | August 07, 2018 Shannon Speed, professor of anthropology and director of UCLA’s American Indian Studies Research Center, has been named president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Speed takes on a three-year leadership role in the professional organization that promotes scholarship and research into indigenous peoples from around the … Read more

UCLA Newsroom: Professor to lead national organization promoting scholarship about indigenous peoples

By Jessica Wolf | August 07, 2018 Shannon Speed, professor of anthropology and director of UCLA’s American Indian Studies Research Center, has been named president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Speed takes on a three-year leadership role in the professional organization that promotes scholarship and research into indigenous peoples from around the … Read more

Article: Recovered and Restored: ‘Ramona,’ Silent Movie by Chickasaw Filmmaker

By Angela Aleiss March 27, 2014 The recently restored 1928 version of Ramona will have its world premiere on March 29 in Los Angeles. Based on a weepy, once-popular novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona tells the story of a mixed-race (Scottish and American Indian) girl who is raised by a Mexican family and suffers racial … Read more

Linguistics Professor, Chickasaw Elder Win Prestigious Book Prize

Nov 13, 2009 By Kelsey Sharpe UCLA Today: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/linguistics-professor–chickasaw-elder-win-prestigious-book-prize.aspx Pamela Munro, professor of linguistics, and Chickasaw native speaker Catherine Willmond have won the 2010 Bloomfield Book Award for their new book “Let’s Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa’ Kilanompoli.’” The biennial award, presented by the Linguistics Society of America since 1992, recognizes “the volume which makes the most … Read more